The Department has a lower estimate for the number of students whose programs may be placed in jeopardy by the rule. But the real question is, access to what? If a gainful employment rule ultimately prevents some students from enrolling in programs that will leave them worse off than when they started, that is a good thing. That is what the gainful employment provision that Congress enacted in 1965 intends, and that's what the regulation implementing that law should do. In far too many cases, predatory for-profit college programs hurt students, and they divert taxpayer money from higher quality education programs.
The weak programs include many of the programs run by some of the biggest companies in the industry, with a huge share of the student market: the University of Phoenix, Education Management Corporation, DeVry, Kaplan, ITT Tech, Corinthian Colleges, Career Education Corporation, and Bridgepoint Education.....http://www.huffingtonpost.com/davidhalperin/obama-must-stop-giving-ta_b_5400967.html